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Teaching Matters is dedicated to increasing teacher effectiveness, one of the most critical factors in student success. Our services transform how educators work together at urban public schools, helping the most effective teachers develop the skills they need to lead their peers and drive school-wide improvement.

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Teaching Matters Addresses Teacher Leadership Movement in Blog Post Series

Across the country, educators and policy-makers are considering fundamental changes in how schools are run. Teaching Matters addresses the movement toward “Teacher Leadership” in its newest blog post , the first in a series appearing every two weeks that will be collected in a "Points of Practice" digital publication about the topic. This initial post focuses on Teach to Lead , a federal push to advance shared leadership. Teaching Matters, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing teacher effectiveness, speaks with

Teaching Matters Solicits Entries for its Annual $25,000 Elizabeth Rohatyn Prize for Schools Where Teaching Matters

WHAT:  For the last four years, Teaching Matters has been recognizing principals of New York metropolitan area schools where teaching effectiveness is successfully fostered. Our founder, Elizabeth Rohatyn, established the prize that now carries a $25,000 cash award. The prize money is intended to support a school initiative already underway, and may be used for needs such as staff or consultants, common planning time, software or hardware, and other resources specific to the initiative. WHY: Research shows that teachers are the single-most important school-based factor for student

Brooke Astor Fund Awards Teaching Matters $600,000 to Implement Early Reading Program

New York, NY – January 9, 2015 Teaching Matters is bringing its Early Reading Matters program to 8 high poverty schools in the Bronx, thanks to a $600,000 award by the New York Community Trust Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education. The award amount was the second highest of $7.4 million distributed to 51 nonprofits in the final round of the Trust’s grant-making during 2014, and the second largest grant so far from the Brooke Astor Fund to improve reading in early grades. Early Reading Matters offers a blueprint to deepen teacher support in the critical area of K-3 reading.

Leaders Weigh in on Leading

What a way to mark 20 years! Teaching Matters celebrated its 20th anniversary at our annual Champions of Education and Innovation luncheon on October 29th with none other than New York City’s education Chancellor, Carmen Fariña, whose remarks were picked up by the press . She lauded the previous Administration for wanting “better teachers, better schools, and better success [as well as] excellence in leadership, ” while also stressing that she intends to

Teaching Matters' 20th Anniversary Luncheon Features Chancellor Fariña and the Wallace Foundation's Jody Spiro Talking about Leadership, 10/29

What: Teaching Matters is celebrating 20 years of helping to increase teacher effectiveness and improve student outcomes. Since 1994, we’ve worked in about half of New York City’s public schools. This year, we’re honored to have Chancellor Carmen Fariña and Jody Spiro, who heads the Wallace Foundation’s educational leadership initiatives across the country, talk about the best ways to train, hire, support and evaluate principals. Jane Williams of Bloomberg Radio will moderate the discussion. Why: Teaching Matters has supported teachers and leaders for more than 20 years in urban schools.

Teaching Matters Creates Micro-Credentialing Pilot for Teacher-leaders

Shares Overview at Council of Great City Schools Conference, 10/23/14What: At the Council of Great City Schools (CGCS) conference, we will formally announce our micro-credentialing pilot, beginning this year with 150 New York City Department of Education teachers. Teaching Matters will offer micro-credentials (or “digital badges”) to participating teachers who demonstrate nationally recognized teacher leadership competencies in their day-to-day practice. The program will include an initial induction phase, coaching, observation of practice, and data collection. Each micro-credential will

Teaching Matters Publishes Multimedia "Class Divide: Poverty, Segregation, and Teacher Quality"

Youth and Adults Speak OutNew York, NY – October 17, 2014 In the second issue of its new multimedia online magazine, Points of Practice, Teaching Matters delves into the problem of inequitably distributed teaching excellence with “Class Divide: Poverty, Segregation, and Teacher Quality.” Using text, illustrations, and video, this Points of Practice features policy experts and those on the front lines – students and adults working in schools – who address what effective teaching is, and how to make sure students from all strata, in urban and suburban settings alike, have parity. The

Teaching Matters Praises Broad Elements Set Forth in Chancellor Farina’s DOE Vision

Statement of Lynette GuastaferroChancellor Carmen Fariña today laid out a schema for New York City Schools consistent with best research and evaluation thinking. Her six elements are linchpins of successful school improvement, and are based on Anthony Bryk’s Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) model. A key point is that these elements work together, and lagging in any makes it much less likely that a school will succeed. This is robust theory of change based on quality research in urban areas that face similar challenges to New York City’s public schools.

Teaching Matters Fourth Annual Cash Award for a Leader Promoting Teacher Effectiveness Goes to First-Year Brooklyn High School Principal

For immediate release Teaching Matters, Inc. today gave a $25,000 cash award to Jodie Cohen, a first year principal at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York. The annual Elizabeth Rohatyn Prize for Schools Where Teaching Matters recognizes a leader who fosters effective teaching in his or her school. Ms. Cohen’s application focused on the collaborative learning model and cross-disciplinary teacher teams introduced at James Madison. She explains, “I believe the joint efforts of our school community made our initiatives a success.”  She is a graduate of the high school she

Teaching Matters to Award Cash Prize on 7-24 to Principal and School Fostering Teacher Effectiveness

What: At its 4th annual Elizabeth Rohatyn Prize for Schools Where Teaching Matters award luncheon, Teaching Matters, Inc. will celebrate a metro area principal for furthering teacher effectiveness. The winner, chosen from five finalists, will receive $25,000 to advance the important work already launched. The finalists were drawn from a pool of 150 nominees within a 100-mile radius of the New York metropolitan area, and include (in alphabetical order): Ailene Altman Mitchell, Park Slope Education Complex/JHS 88, Brooklyn, NY - A “blended” and “flipped” learning pilot in math and science (

Nearly 250 middle-school students will participate in Teaching Matters’ Poetry Slam, Wednesday, June 4

Master poet Carlos Andrés Gómez, featured guestWhat and Who: A celebration of poetry written by 5th-8th grade students.  During the Poetry Slam, public schoolers from across New York City come together to perform their own original work in front of an audience of their peers and adults. Finalists are selected by judges in the morning and take the stage in the afternoon with master guest poet Carlos Andrés Gómez. The Poetry Slam is the culminating activity of Teaching Matters’ Common Core-aligned Writing Matters 4-week Writing Poetry unit 

Teaching Matters Launches New Magazine, Points of Practice

First Issue Addresses Common Core ImplementationFor Immediate Release New York, NY – March 27, 2014 Because of its shoulder-to-shoulder work with educators in urban classrooms, Teaching Matters, a non-profit dedicated to increasing teacher effectiveness, has a close-up view of what works and what doesn’t. Points of Practice , its new multimedia e-zine, is designed to offer varied perspectives and information on pressing education concerns. The first issue addresses the highly charged and criticized

Teaching Matters Uses Positive Results from Independent Pilot Study of its Flagship Program, Teaching for Impact, to Chart Path Ahead

Teaching Matters is learning as it goes along – and bringing the benefits to schools around the city. An independent evaluation of its Teaching for Impact (TFI) program pilot produced positive results newly documented in a report , and Teaching Matters has already implemented changes suggested by the study’s findings. TFI rests upon the premise that content-specific teacher teams analyzing and acting upon student assessments, when supported by coaches or learning team leaders, will improve teacher effectiveness and

Statement of Lynette Guastaferro, Executive Director

We applaud the education priorities  outlined by Governor Cuomo in his State of the State address. We are particularly heartened by the Teacher Excellence Fund, which would offer up to $20,000 additional money per year to eligible highly effective teachers. Teachers are the single most important school-related factor in the quality of a student's education, and this reward is a positive step toward retaining the best educators. We are also in full support of the Governor's early education initiatives.

NYSED Comm. John King and AFT Pres. Randi Weingarten Find Common Cause at Teaching Matters’ Moderated Discussion

The head of New York’s education department and the leader of 1.5 million teacher union members came together today at an event dedicated to “Finding Common Ground” – and did. Teaching Matters’ Fifth Annual Champions of Education Luncheon featured a conversation with the American Federation of Teachers’ President RandiWeingarten and New York State Commissioner of Education John King. The talk was moderated by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Henig. About 200 people attended. “This is a make or break moment in education,” said Lynette Guastaferro, Teaching Matters’ Executive

Teaching Matters Awarded $120,000 to Begin “Early Reading Matters” Program

The Brooke Astor Fund for New York City Education has awarded Teaching Matters a $120,000 planning grant to develop a new K-3 early education component of its teacher effectiveness program. Building upon our successful Teaching for Impact model that is already used in grades 3-8, Early Reading Matters will focus on improving literacy teaching and learning in these critical grades. “It’s crucial to make sure students have a good foundation if we want to equip them for success, and that means we’ve got to give their earliest grade teachers the right tools from the start,” said Lynette

Manhattan Principal Salvador Fernandez Wins 3rd Annual Elizabeth Rohatyn Prize for Schools Where Teaching Matters

School Gets $15,000Teaching Matters awarded its 3rd Annual Elizabeth Rohatyn Prize for Schools Where Teaching Matters to Principal Salvador Fernandez at its 6th Principals’ Forum yesterday. He will take $15,000 back to his school, JHS 52 Inwood, in north Manhattan. At the gathering of principals and other school leaders, Mr. Fernandez explained the philosophy of collaboration and teacher development that garnered him and his school the prize. He praised his staff, and he called the reflective process and cross-curricular sharing among them “empowering.” Rose Kerr, previous Rohatyn

Teaching Matters’ authors show how to use measurement in a helpful way when approaching Common Core

Learning Forward's Journal of Staff Development is featuring an article co-authored by members of Teaching Matters’ staff and an independent researcher. The piece presents a systematic way to use assessments and serve student interests. Well-designed and implemented assessments are feedback tools for teachers that let them know where their lessons are succeeding or not, and what might need to be modified in their instruction. Getting it right is a critical component of responding effectively to Common Core challenges, and giving students the best learning opportunity. An “assessment”

Teaching Matters Expands with Launch of a New York City Public School Network

Teaching Matters, Inc., a non-profit with nearly twenty years of service in over half of New York City’s schools, is expanding its scope. The New York CityDepartment of Education recently named Teaching Matters a Partnership Support Organization (PSO), and 24 schools are now within its network. The network launched on Monday, July 1st. “We are thrilled to be embarking on this venture,” said Lynette Guastaferro,Teaching Matters’ Executive Director and the current network leader. “It’s a great opportunity to gain insight from our new relationship with schools, share what we’ve learned over

Teaching Matters Hosts Poetry Slam on 6/11 for 200+ Students, with Prominent Guest Poets

WHAT: The Spoken Word annual poetry event is the culminating activity for Teaching Matters’ writing curriculum, WritingMatters, which offers 5th through 9th grade teachers powerful new ways to approach writing instruction using 21st Century technology tools. Created by Teaching Matters, Writing Matters offers a private, safe, free e-Zine space for students to publish and share their work in progress. At the competition, 250 young people from New York City public schools perform their own original poetry to an audience of their peers and poets. The students are in breakout rooms throughout

New Teacher Evaluation System Must be Thoughtfully Implemented and Coupled With Adequate Support for Teachers

Statement of Lynette Guastaferro, Executive DirectorNow that a new – and necessary – teacher evaluation system for New York City has been put into place, the next step is implementing it in a way that builds trust, respects teachers, and leads to better schools and education for students.  Many great teachers are feeling threatened by the changes to come – but the plan holds opportunities as well.  We believe these are some of the important practices that should be followed: · Include content experts in observations · Ask the strongest teachers to volunteer first for feedback

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